{"id":302,"date":"2013-01-04T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/04\/free-ebook-of-my-first-fiction-sale\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:36:00","slug":"free-ebook-of-my-first-fiction-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/04\/free-ebook-of-my-first-fiction-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE eBook of My First Fiction Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now through the end of Saturday (January 5, 2013), you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ATT9W7E\/curtiscchensfree\">download a FREE Kindle edition<\/a> of the first short story I ever sold!  It&#8217;s titled &#8220;At Long Last, Love,&#8221; and it&#8217;s part of the anthology <i>From the Porch Swing &#8211; memories of our grandparents<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9lUd-luyRKY\/UOc7BtJfLlI\/AAAAAAABhok\/om_2q7wRft4\/s1600\/porch_ebook.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"289\" width=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9lUd-luyRKY\/UOc7BtJfLlI\/AAAAAAABhok\/om_2q7wRft4\/s320\/porch_ebook.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ATT9W7E\/curtiscchensfree\">http:\/\/amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ATT9W7E\/curtiscchensfree<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Long Last, Love&#8221; was the first fiction piece I ever sold for actual money, so I&#8217;m still nostalgic about it.  \ud83d\ude42  For those interested, you can read the backstory of the sale on my <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2010\/07\/i-continue-to-be-professional-writer.html\">blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/87472.html\">livejournal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see how much I&#8217;ve improved as a writer since then, please peruse my other, more recent work at <a href=\"http:\/\/curtiscchen.com\/stories\/\">curtiscchen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now through the end of Saturday (January 5, 2013), you can download a FREE Kindle edition of the first short story I ever sold! It&#8217;s titled &#8220;At Long Last, Love,&#8221; and it&#8217;s part of the anthology From the Porch Swing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,49,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-doinitrite","category-publishing","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}